Garth Peacock
Grafham Water Cambridgeshire

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Friday 4th October - North Norfolk

Monday 7th October 2024

Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

Saturday 5th October 2024

Two trips out with little to show.

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Tanzania Day 7 - The Serengeti

Monday 23rd September 2024

Abberton Reservoir - again

Thursday 19th September 2024

Abberton Essex

Wednesday 11th September 2024

A morning at Grafham Water

Thursday 29th August 2024

After holiday blues

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Trying out a new lens

Monday 5th August 2024

Tanzania Day 5 - Ngorogoro Crater

Saturday 27th July 2024

Kevin Robson's Tawny Owl hide

Thursday 25th July 2024

Local stuff

Saturday 20th July 2024

More local stuff

Saturday 29th June 2024

Catching up with a local rarity

Friday 14th June 2024

Tanzania - Day 1 - Arusha

Monday 13th May 2024

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Saturday 19th October 2013

A juvenile Great Skua (Bonxie) has been present at Grafham Water for the past few days so, prompted by a report that it was seen close to the south side of the dam at 8.30am, I decided to see if there were any photographic opportunities.

I arrived at the dam at 9.30 but no sign. I walked the full length of the dam and back, still no sign but saw a birder with scope at the south end and asked if he had seen it. He had been watching it from Mander car park in the middle of the reservoir, fighting with and killing a Herring Gull and showed it to me in his scope on the far side drfiting with the wind into the north shore.

My search on the north shore was fruitless so I drove to Mander car park. No Bonxie but a juvenile Little Gull was feeding close in so I spent an hour or so trying to photograph it - not easy due to the strongish gusty wind and the very erratic flight behaviour.

The net result was quite pleasing

Still no sign of the Skua so I left at lunchtime and de-camped to Welney WWT. Report on that later.

More Little Gull images in the Recent Additions section.

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